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Wise Child Studios is a dynamic new production company founded by experienced entertainment lawyer and business strategist, Jason Beekman, and seasoned industry creative, Ryan Miller.
Propelled by their unique and complementary skill sets, Wise Child is a one-stop destination for developing, packaging, and producing premium content.
We prioritize a diversity of stories and work with the industry’s best, from Academy Award winners to emerging talent, to deliver work that is timely, relevant, and guaranteed to cut through the noise.
meet our team
Jason Beekman
Jason Beekman is a seasoned business strategist, entertainment attorney and producer who has worked with a wide range of industry collaborators, most recently serving as Vice President and Head of Business & Legal Affairs for RadicalMedia, a global, award-winning production company. In addition to negotiating precedent setting deals across both scripted and unscripted projects for film, television, and digital platforms, as well as immersive experiences and live events, Beekman has overseen the packaging, development, financing, production, delivery, sales and distribution of award-winning productions and content to nearly every linear network and streaming service. He has built a reputation within the industry as an innovative, solutions-oriented lawyer and creative partner, who advocates for his clients and collaborators, guiding them through difficult negotiations and overseeing complex, sensitive, boundary-pushing projects as trusted production counsel and advisor.
Beekman’s recent credits include Oscar- and Grammy-winning Summer of Soul directed by Questlove, Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, Ron Delsener Presents, The League, HBO’s Spring Awakening with Jonathan Groff and Lea Michelle and American Utopia directed by Spike Lee, Peacock’s Shadowland and Geography of Bliss, Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer and Crime Scene directed by Joe Berlinger, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry-produced The Me You Can’t See on Apple+, John Legend Executive Produced Sherman’s Showcase for AMC, History’s Lincoln and Roosevelt, Illuminarium exhibitions in Atlanta and Las Vegas, and exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. He’s negotiated various financing, development, and production deals with Magnolia, Participant, Play Action, Fifth Season, Peacock, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, AMC, ABC, CBS, BET, BBC, Bravo, and PBS, and commercial and branded projects with Ogilvy, Apple, Google, Walmart and Target, among others.
A passionate storyteller at heart with particular interest in championing underrepresented voices, Beekman brings a unique blend of business and legal acumen with a creative mindset and producer’s approach.
Jason Beekman
Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller is a versatile executive producer, showrunner, and director of non-fiction documentaries. His nearly two decades in the industry have taken him from ice sheets in Antarctica with NASA scientists to barrios in Mexico City with Anthony Bourdain, the campaign trail with Obama and Romney “big data” strategists, the Tanzanian savannah with nomadic Maasai warriors, ancient bakeries in Marrakech with author Michael Pollan, and the mean streets of Brooklyn with the mob’s most notorious hitmen.
Before show-running the upcoming Choir series directed by Rudy Valdez for Disney and the recent Netflix smash hit, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel directed by Joe Berlinger, Miller helmed several high-profile series, including Emmy-nominated Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta and Alex Gibney-produced Death Row Stories. He previously served as director on CNN’s Parts Unknown: Anthony Bordain and as senior producer on National Geographic’s Explorer.
Miller’s passion for shaping stories and characters into compelling narratives with a premium aesthetic is matched only by his fierce loyalty and dedication to his partners, collaborators, and team members.
To date, he’s worked with and delivered series for clients and commissioners, including Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Hulu, VICE, CNN, PBS, NatGeo, Discovery, History, Animal Planet, and A&E.
Ryan Miller
Constantina Konugres
Constantina Konugres is a veteran producer of premium unscripted content whose talents and experience span long-form documentary, branded, and live-to-tape, on productions based across New York, London, and Los Angeles. Recent credits include Oscar-winning Summer of Soul directed by Questlove, HBO’s Emmy-winning American Utopia directed by Spike Lee, Ricky Velez: Here’s Everything and Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh, Netflix’s Blackpink, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel directed by Joe Berlinger, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Sons of Sam: Descent into Darkness, Apple TV+’s The Me You Can’t See and Come From Away, and History’s Roosevelt and Grant.
She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, serves on the Board of the Hellenic Film Society, and is a graduate of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and School of Cinematic Arts. When she isn’t working, you can find her at Greek dance practice or at The Bigg Chill Frozen Yogurt.
Constantina Konugres
Miatta Lebile
Miatta Adé Lebilé is a Nigerian-American, L.A.- based producer, actor, and writer. She spent much of her younger years living overseas: first in France, then in Chad, and then Niger, before moving back to Texas. She attended Cornell University, where she earned her B.A. in Music, and has her M.B.A. from the Metropolitan College of New York.
As an executive producer and writer, she worked on the web-series Happyness, a comedy series about the mental health of Black millennials in Hollywood. Her pilot, Pardon My Wrath, placed as a semi-finalist in the Final Draft “Big Break” contest in 2022.
As an actor, her recent credits include Amazon Prime's Gen V, Netflix's I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, BET's All The Queen’s Men, ALLBLK's Partners in Rhyme, HBO’s Insecure, among others. She has appeared in dozens of commercials, and was the spokesperson for Drivetime (Yes, the Black lady in the green suit. She has a very weird fan following as a result). She has also done VO in video games like EA’s Star Wars Jedi:Survivor, television TV shows like ABC’s Abbott Elementary, and an upcoming Pixar project.
As a professionally-trained opera singer, in 2019, she was chosen by Academy Award winners Bill Condon, Stephen Schwartz, and Dan Jinks to perform new, original music as part of a presentation for an upcoming movie musical at Disney. She was also lead in the musical feature, "Mailman," executive produced by Gus Van Sant.
Our team’s previous credits
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